Cubs Fans: Wait ’Til Next Year (Your Odds Are Good) By Whet Moser League-championship losers are even odds to get back to the playoffs, but winning it all is hard. Read more
The State of Chicago's Arthouses By Matt Pollock As Chicago International Film Festival goes off at the city's glitziest megaplex, how are Chicago's year-round art theaters faring? Read more
The Top Five Things to Do This Week Chicago Humanities Festival, Music Box of Horrors, 1984, The Halloween Gathering, and Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor Read more
What You Need to Know About the Chicago Dining Scene This Week By Carrie Schedler New trend: High-end restaurants doing casual reinventions. Read more
Tavi Gevinson Shares the Future of Rookie and Her Own Acting Dreams Interview by Britt Julious The rising teen star returns to Chicago to promote her magazine's final yearbook. Read more
Amazing Before-and-After Photos from the Great Fire of 1871 By Whet Moser The Story of Chicago captures the ruins—and the Relic House, a bar built from the city's ashes. Read more